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Reading and Language

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Reading (Elementary) Language experience approach

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Script-Based Reading Lessons And Socialized Language Usage, Joseph James Spencer Jan 2013

Script-Based Reading Lessons And Socialized Language Usage, Joseph James Spencer

Theses Digitization Project

This study focuses in particular on the connections students make to their reading as seen through contextualized language usage. Many educators and curriculum developers suggest that using these new script-based curriculum will help teachers systematize and close gaps in teaching and learning. If unwritten teacher questions and statements are used to redirect students' comprehension about texts occur during the reading lesson, these will be described and analyzed for their effects on the lesson goals and objectives.


Learning Through Literature Versus Scripted Lessons, Leticia Aviles-Parsons Jan 2012

Learning Through Literature Versus Scripted Lessons, Leticia Aviles-Parsons

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to create a guide for planning literature lessons connected to the state mandated curriculum, including today's standards for a fifth grade class and the recently adapted Common Core Standards in Language Arts. This project explains the reading comprehension problems that students in elementary school are facing, especially English learners.


Oral Language Development: Effects Of Instruction To Increase Oral Language Skills And Its Connection To Reading Achievement, Nancee Marlene Simpson Jan 2006

Oral Language Development: Effects Of Instruction To Increase Oral Language Skills And Its Connection To Reading Achievement, Nancee Marlene Simpson

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to determine if specific oral language instruction could improve oral language skills in students who demonstrate low oral language development, and as oral language skills increase, woud this affect reading achievement.